Americas category: 34066 books
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?
Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
In this “heroic narrative” (The Wall Street Journal), discover the inspiring and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for women’s equality.
Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington, DC in March of 1913, a...
Adams vs. Jefferson
The Tumultuous Election of 1800
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2004
It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral...
Kissinger's Shadow
The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance
In his fascinating new book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of...
Andrew Johnson
The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office
Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's...
by Barry Goldwater
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Barry Goldwater is a principled politican in a world where the species seems endangered, a man of profound convcition about government and law, the grand old man of the Grand Old Party, respected as much by those who disagree with him as by those who share his views. Goldwater is at once a revealing...
Ask Not
The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
2013 is the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination.
A narrative of Kennedy's quest to create a speech that would distill American dreams and empower a new generation, Ask Not is a beautifully detailed account of the inauguration and the weeks preceding it. During a time when America was...
Two Days in June
John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
On two consecutive days in June 1963, in two lyrical speeches, John F. Kennedy pivots dramatically and boldly on the two greatest issues of his time: nuclear arms and civil rights. In language unheard in lily white, Cold War America, he appeals to Americans to see both the Russians and the "Negroes"...
Tomorrow Is Now
It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Available again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book—a battle cry for civil rights
As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community...
Light and Liberty
Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Were Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an astonishing feat of editing, Eric S. Petersen has culled the entirety of Thomas Jefferson’s published...
More Than Freedom
Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally...
Ulysses S. Grant
Soldier & President
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Not since Bruce Catton has there been such an absorbing and exciting biography of Ulysses S. Grant. “Grant is a mystery to me,” said William Tecumseh Sherman, “and I believe he is a mystery to himself.” Geoffrey Perret’s account offers new insights into Grant the commander and Grant the...
The Strong Man
John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The Strong Man is the first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges.
As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, John Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals...
Hell or High Water
My Life in and out of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped...
The Conviction of Richard Nixon
The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed...